(Moment of silence for our dear /Johnny.)
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If you’re growing tobacco, also look for instructions on how to cure it. When not cured properly, it tastes awful! (According to smokers I know.)
A little practice carving pipes wouldn’t hurt. It’ll help expand your market in a post-SHTF environment.
Tobacco can also be used as an insecticide. Just be careful around nightshades, as they can share diseases.
“A little practice carving pipes wouldn’t hurt.”
LOL. True. Pipes can also be quickly made from aluminum foil . I learned this by observing crackheads when I still lived in the inner city,
They’d just drag a chair out on the sidewalk, pull out a piece of “tin ferl” and get busy.
Roll the tinfoil around a stick or pencil to make the stem, bend one end upward. Make a rounded bowl with your index finger, mash it onto the turned-up end of the stem. Poke a tiny hole in the bowl with a pin.
I figured, huh, wonder if that skill might come in handy one day?
Note to preppers: lay in a supply of “tin ferl.”